"Blanka Vlašić, Allyson Felix or Churandy Martina. Maurice Greene (athlete) Maurice Greene (born July 23, 1974) is an American former track and field sprinter who specialized in the 100 meters and 200 meters. He is a former 100 m world record holder with a time of 9.79 seconds. During the height of his career (1997–2004) he won four Olympic medals and was a five-time World Champion. This included three golds at the 1999 World Championships, a feat which had previously only been achieved by Carl Lewis and Michael Johnson and has since been equaled by three others. His career was"
"6.49 over the 60 metres during the 1997 indoor season he was the world top performer that year, together with Ato Boldon and Randall Evans. Michael Green (sprinter) Michael Green (born 7 November 1970 in Trelawny) is a retired Jamaican sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres. Michael Green attended William Knibb Memorial High and graduated in May 1989 where he dominated the 100m. Green's nickname at William Knibb was 'Roach'. After graduating from William Knibb as the fastest male in 1989, Green was awarded a scholarship to attend Clemson University. Michael Green and 100m World Record setting sprinter Usain"
"Michael Green (sprinter) Michael Green (born 7 November 1970 in Trelawny) is a retired Jamaican sprinter who specialized in the 100 metres. Michael Green attended William Knibb Memorial High and graduated in May 1989 where he dominated the 100m. Green's nickname at William Knibb was 'Roach'. After graduating from William Knibb as the fastest male in 1989, Green was awarded a scholarship to attend Clemson University. Michael Green and 100m World Record setting sprinter Usain Bolt are former students at William Knibb Memorial High School. His personal best time is 10.02 seconds, achieved in April 1997 in Knoxville, TN. With"
"named Christie. Greene and Christie agreed that they would see each other again. He has a tattoo that reads GOAT referring to his claim to be ""Greatest of All Time"". In an event set up by ESPN's Todd Gallagher, Greene appeared in the book ""Andy Roddick Beat Me With a Frying Pan"" racing in a 100-meter race against the book's editor, who had a 31-meter head start and the help of a moving sidewalk. Greene lost by a nose. Maurice Greene is now hosting the monthly show ""Greene Light"" on Eurosport where he is meeting the stars of athletics like"
"advent of electronic timing. Greene also matched Bailey's 50 m indoor world record time, but the run was never ratified. He also set the 60 m indoor world record twice. His 60 m indoor record is currently at 6.39 seconds. In addition, Maurice Greene was the only sprinter to hold the 60 m and 100 m world records at the same time. In 2002, Greene lost his 100 m world record to fellow American Tim Montgomery, who beat his time by 0.01 (9.78 s +2.0 m/s), while Greene himself was injured and watched the race from the stands; Montgomery has"
"2001 onwards, although he won the 100 meters bronze and silver in the sprint relay at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Greene was also successful indoors: he was the 1999 Indoor World Champion, was the world record holder in the 60-meter dash for nearly 20 years and remains the joint-fastest man over 50 meters. He raced sparingly after an injury in 2005 and officially retired in 2008. Over his career, he made the fourth most sub-10-second runs (51) in the 100m since surpassed by Asafa Powell, Justin Gatlin and Usain Bolt. Following his track career he has become an ambassador for"
"the IAAF and a TV personality, appearing on ""Identity"", ""Blind Date"", and ""Dancing with the Stars"". Most recently he volunteered as a track coach at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) for the 2012–2013 season. Maurice Greene was born in Kansas City, Kansas and attended F.L. Schlagle High School. In his youth and high school, he participated in both American football and track and field. After high school, Greene received a Track scholarship to the University of Kansas. In 1995 he took part in his first major international tournament at the World Championships in Gothenburg, but was eliminated in"
"for helping athletes push themselves to their limits, even to the point of crawling to the finish line, as Lars Benner (University of Tampa) did in 2013. Orlando Greene Orlando Greene is an Olympic runner from Barbados who raced in the 1976 summer Olympic games in Montréal. Greene was born into poverty in Bridgetown, on the Caribbean island of Barbados, where at a very early age he made a name for himself as a cricket player. After discovering the joy of winning in sprints, he soon found his true expertise in the longer distances of 400 and 800 metres. He"
"as the ""Night of Speed"". As a University of Nebraska student, Greene won the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) championships in the 100-yard dash from 1965 to 1967 and tied the world record at 9.1 seconds. At the 1968 Olympics in Mexico, Greene felt pain in his hamstring late in the race and was third in the 100-meter dash. He was the fastest man in the trials and semifinals, but before the final race he was injured but started anyway with a bandaged leg. Despite the injury, he also led off the American 4 × 100 metres relay team that"
"sub-10-second 100 m races during his career, which at the time was more than any other sprinter in history. This record has now been surpassed by Asafa Powell who has 98 100 m sub-10-second runs to his name. Previously Greene had held the record for the most wind-legal sub-10-second clockings for 100 m in one season, when he ran 9 sub-10s in 1999. This record was also broken by Asafa Powell in 2006 (12), and it was improved by Powell in 2008 to 15. On December 21, 2006, he appeared as one of the ""strangers"" on the NBC game show"
"compete at the event and a number of national and area records have been set at previous editions. The event is usually held in mid-May at The Home Depot Center, part of the Adidas Performance Institute. Athletes who are part of the Adidas track team often feature prominently and World Champions and Olympic medalists often participate in the event. The competition is broadcast on television in the United States. After winning the 100 metres at the 2004 edition, Olympic Gold Medalist Maurice Greene walked back to the finish line and took off his shoes as if they were on fire."
"Joe Greene Charles Edward Greene (born September 24, 1946), better known as ""Mean"" Joe Greene, is a former American football defensive tackle who played for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL) from 1969 to 1981. A recipient of two NFL Defensive Player of the Year awards, five first-team All-Pro selections, and ten Pro Bowl appearances, Greene is widely considered one of the greatest defensive linemen to play in the NFL. He was noted for his leadership, fierce competitiveness, and intimidating style of play for which he earned his nickname. Born and raised in Temple, Texas, Greene attended"
"medallist. North Americans dominated the event as Maurice Greene and Bruny Surin took first and second place respectively, with record runs of 9.80 s and 9.84 s, respectively. The British sprint team Chambers, Gardener, Campbell and Marlon Devonish performed well in the 4×100 metres relay event as runners-up in a time of 37.73 s behind the US team led by Greene. World record holder Maurice Greene was hitting his peak, winning three gold medals in Seville. However, at 21 years old, Chambers had achieved more than Greene had at that age: Greene's best was 10.08 s in 1996 and he"
"he was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1991. Because of these displays, he was given the nickname ""Magnificent Maurice"". He also became an advocate for fitness and health. At age 69, he pulled an 80 ft boat filled with 125 passengers while swimming the backstroke for 300 feet in a lake, which earned him a place in ""The Guinness Book of World Records"" in the category ""feats of strength"". Then, at age 72, he dragged a 27,000 lb bus down a New York City street on the ""Late Show with David Letterman"". Other stunts included tearing 17 decks of cards"
"Charles Greene (athlete) Charles Edward ""Charlie"" Greene (born March 21, 1945) is a retired African-American track and field sprinter and winner of the gold medal in the 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Greene was considered a certain candidate for the 1964 Olympic team, but he suffered a muscle pull that held him to a sixth-place finish at the Olympic Trials. Greene won the 100-yard dash for O'Dea High School in Seattle in 1962 and 1963 and also the 220-yard dash in 1963. Greene won the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) championships"
"Orlando Greene Orlando Greene is an Olympic runner from Barbados who raced in the 1976 summer Olympic games in Montréal. Greene was born into poverty in Bridgetown, on the Caribbean island of Barbados, where at a very early age he made a name for himself as a cricket player. After discovering the joy of winning in sprints, he soon found his true expertise in the longer distances of 400 and 800 metres. He attended Seton Hall University, setting school records in the 1600 metres and winning the 1973 NCAA championship in that event. In 1976 he set the Barbadian record"
"Norm Green (runner) Dr. Norman (Norm) Green (born June 27, 1932 in Oakland, California, United States) is an American long distance runner. He has set numerous American and World records over his career. He still holds the current M55 American record for the 10,000 metres. In 1996 he was elected into the inaugural class of the USATF Masters Hall of Fame, the first long distance runner. For more than a decade, Green was the director of the Hall of Fame. Green began running at Piedmont High School, running a 4:31.6 mile. He was the North Coast Section champion in the"
"Games in the 4×100 metres relay. Brian Green (athlete) Brian Green (born 15 May 1941 in Ormskirk) is a British former sprinter. Green attended Walton Grammar School and worked as an advertising assistant. He came to sprinting late, having previously divided his time between other sporting interests including Squash (sport), badminton and hockey. Standing at Green was once told he was too short to be a sprinter. Despite this, at the age of 31, Green became the fastest man in Britain, recording a time of 10.1 seconds in Bratislava. Green competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics. He was a bronze"
"Brian Green (athlete) Brian Green (born 15 May 1941 in Ormskirk) is a British former sprinter. Green attended Walton Grammar School and worked as an advertising assistant. He came to sprinting late, having previously divided his time between other sporting interests including Squash (sport), badminton and hockey. Standing at Green was once told he was too short to be a sprinter. Despite this, at the age of 31, Green became the fastest man in Britain, recording a time of 10.1 seconds in Bratislava. Green competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics. He was a bronze medallist at the 1970 British Commonwealth"
"Green was promoted to Wing Commander. He later became Officer Commanding Operations Wing at RAF Wittering near Peterborough. Green is also the captain of the RAF team at the Cresta Run, where he uses an experimental French toboggan. Green is the current holder of the World Land speed record, and the first person to break the sound barrier on land. On 25 September 1997 in ThrustSSC he beat the previous record in Black Rock Desert, US, reaching a speed of . On 15 October 1997, 50 years and 1 day after the sound barrier was broken in aerial flight by"
"the 1912 Polytechnic Marathon, a race that also served as ""England's tryouts for the Olympic games"", but finished third behind James Corkery of Canada and Christian Gitsham of South Africa. During the 1912 Summer Olympics, he finished fourteenth in the marathon. In May 1913 Green broke the world marathon record at a track in Shepherds Bush, with a time of 2h, 38m, 16.2s. Green's record lasted nineteen days. On 31 May 1913, Alexis Ahlgren of Sweden eclipsed Green's mark with a 2:36:06 performance at the Polytechnic Marathon. Green worked at Harrods until he signed up as a private during World"
"Harry Green (athlete) Henry Harold ""Harry"" Green (15 July 1886 – 12 March 1934) was a British long-distance runner who competed in the marathon at the 1912 Summer Olympics and is recognized by the International Association of Athletics Federations as having set a world's best in the marathon on 12 May 1913 with a time of 2:38:16.2 in London. Green was a member of the Herne Hill Harriers. Green competed for the Sutton Harriers and won a marathon in Surrey on Boxing Day 1908. At the inaugural Polytechnic Marathon run in London on 8 May 1909 he finished third, behind"
"in the 100-yard dash in 1966 and in the 100-meter dash in 1968. At the 1968 AAU Championships, Greene tied the 100 m world record twice. First in the heats, he equaled the world record of 10.0 seconds. In the second semifinal, he achieved a time of 9.9 seconds, the same time which had been run by Jim Hines and Ronnie Ray Smith in the previous race. The evening when the three men equaled the world record (and several others were very close), June 20, 1968, at Hughes Stadium in Sacramento, California has been dubbed by track and field historians"
"since been found guilty of using performance-enhancing drugs, and his record has been retroactively rescinded. The record was broken legitimately by Asafa Powell in 2005 with a time of 9.77 s (+1.6 m/s wind). At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greene added to his medal tally with the bronze after finishing third in his attempt to defend his 100 m title to Justin Gatlin, and a silver as the anchor leg runner on the United States 4 × 100 m relay team, narrowly denied another Olympic Gold by the British team, who won by 0.01 seconds. Greene ran 51"
"record for the distance, which had stood for 63 years. At the Australian track and field championships in Melbourne in 1956, Rae was second behind Hogan in both the 100 yards and 220 yards finals. Maurice Rae Maurice Leslie Rae (born 12 March 1935) is a former New Zealand athlete. Rae was a sprinter, he represented New Zealand at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics and 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, reaching the semifinals of the 100 m and 200 m at Melbourne and the 100 yards and 220 yards at Cardiff. On 20 February 1955, Rae defeated Australian"
"won the gold medal and set a new world record of 38.24 seconds. Following his athletic career, Greene became an Army officer, serving as sprint coach at West Point and head coach of the All-Army team. After retiring from the Army, he became a director for Special Olympics International. In 2007, Charles Greene became the sprints coach at Lincoln Northeast High School in Lincoln, Nebraska. He coached multiple state qualifiers in his first year along with the state's third-place 4 × 100 metres relay team of Logan Reising, Brian May, Tory Berks, and AJ Robinson. Charles Greene (athlete) Charles Edward"
"Maurice Garin Maurice-François Garin (; 3 March 1871 – 19 February 1957) was an Italian-born French road bicycle racer best known for winning the inaugural Tour de France in 1903, and for being stripped of his title in the second Tour in 1904 along with eight others, for cheating. Garin was born the son of Maurice-Clément Garin and Maria Teresa Ozello in Arvier, in the French-speaking Aosta Valley in north-west Italy, close to the French border. The name Garin was the most common in the native village of Maurice, called ""Chez-les-Garin"", belonging to five of the seven families. They had"
"Maurice Rae Maurice Leslie Rae (born 12 March 1935) is a former New Zealand athlete. Rae was a sprinter, he represented New Zealand at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics and 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff, reaching the semifinals of the 100 m and 200 m at Melbourne and the 100 yards and 220 yards at Cardiff. On 20 February 1955, Rae defeated Australian Hector Hogan, at that time the world record holder for the 100 yards, in races over 100 yards and 220 yards. Rae's time of 9.7 seconds for the 100 yards broke the New Zealand resident"
"metres time is the Bahamian record. Rodney Green (athlete) Rodney Green (born 8 December 1985) is a Bahamian sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres. He competed at the 2010 World Indoor Championships without reaching the final. In the 4 x 100 metres relay he won silver medals at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Games and the 2008 Central American and Caribbean Championships. His personal best times are 6.65 seconds in the 60 metres (indoor), achieved at the 2010 World Indoor Championships in Doha; and 10.28 seconds in the 100 metres, achieved in July 2008 in Winter Haven and"
"clubs. Maurice Davin Maurice Davin (29 June 1842 – 27 January 1927) was an Irish farmer who became co-founder of the Gaelic Athletic Association. He was also the first President of the GAA and the only man ever to serve two terms as president. Davin was born in Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary He became an extremely talented athlete and achieved international fame in the 1870s when he held numerous world records for running, hurdling, jumping and weight-throwing. In fact at a time he was regarded as the best athlete in the world. From 1887 Davin actively campaigned for a body to"
"""maillot vert"" (green jersey) is won by the race's most consistent sprinter. At the Tour de France, the most current successful recipient of this honor is Slovak sprinter Peter Sagan, who has won six Tour de France green jerseys (2012–2016, 2018). Sprinters have a higher ratio of fast-twitch muscle fibers than non-sprinters. Road cycling sprinters sometimes tend to have a larger build than the average road racing cyclist, combining the strength of their legs with their upper body to produce a short burst of speed necessary in a closely contested finish. Some sprinters have a high top speed but may"
"first race at the age of 32 in 1926 and soon thereafter joined the Belgrave Harriers. His breakthrough year was 1929, winning several national competitions and coming in second at an international 100 km event in Milan. Green's prominence grew in 1930 as he set a new world record while becoming Britain's first national 50 km racewalking champion in July. After a string of victories in other British events, he captured his first international title at the international 100 km race in Milan. His continuing success through 1931 and 1932 earned him a trip to the 1932 Summer Olympics in"
"""Identity"". The contestant, a self-professed track and field fan, incorrectly identified him by name as Marion Jones, although she identified him as the ""world's fastest man."" On February 4, 2008, Greene announced his retirement from track and field in Beijing, citing nagging injuries and a wish to see new individuals succeed in the sport. Greene said he hopes to pursue coaching and business interests. In April 2008, the New York Times reported that Greene had paid Mexican discus thrower Angel Guillermo Heredia $10,000, which Heredia claimed was in payment for performance-enhancing drugs. Greene admitted meeting Heredia and making the payment,"